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Hi video autists, I'm looking for some practical advice on lights.
I've read the portion of the sticky dealing with lights but I don't have any experience with lighting for video so I'm wondering, are those cheap-ish (~€100-140) battery powered led lights like the Aputure AL-F7 powerful enough to convincingly light up a scene made up of, say, two people in a 4x5m room, if I get two or three and set them up 2 to 3m from the subjects?
They look a lot more convenient to set up and tear down and carry anywhere than a homemade set (or more) of fluorescent tubes attached to sockets bolted on sheet metal, even if the latter would cost a fair bit less, but I have no clue how many AL-F7 (or similar) I'd need to really light up a scene, nor how much I can cheap out on those by getting chink knock offs before the leds' quality plummets.
Ease of use outdoors is more of an added bonus that an important factor I'm considering, so those mains powered, serious looking things like the Godox SL-60W are also an option and one of those costs just about the same as an AL-F7 (or similar), will their significantly higher power translate to that much more light?
Any help figuring this out will be much appreciated as I don't know shit about video lighting, thanks.
